Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To pour (something) out of one vessel into another.
- v. To cause to be instilled or imparted: transfused a love of learning to her children.
- v. To diffuse through; permeate: a glade that was transfused with sunlight.
- v. Medicine To administer a transfusion of or to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pour out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring.
- In medicine, to transfer (blood) from the veins or arteries of one person to those of another, or from an animal to a person; also, to inject into a blood-vessel (other liquids, such as milk or saline solutions), with the view of replacing the bulk of fluid lost by hemorrhage or drained away in the discharges of cholera, etc.
- To cause to pass from one to another; cause to be instilled or imbibed.
Wiktionary
- v. To administer a transfusion.
- v. To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
- v. To diffuse or permeate through something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
- v. To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.
- v. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed.
WordNet 3.0
- v. pour out of one vessel into another
- v. impart gradually
- v. give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
- v. treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
Etymologies
- Middle English transfusen, to transmit, from Latin trānsfundere, trānsfūs-, to transfuse : trāns-, trans- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“In the Wall St. Journal interview you described the methods the team used to transfuse blood during that Tour – first at a hotel in St. Leonard-de-Noblat on the first rest day and then later as the race reached the Alps.”
Complete transcript: Paul Kimmage’s interview of Floyd Landis
“There is no need to transfuse today's social diseases into the simpler bloodstream of yesterday.”
Dorothy Garlock discusses the western novel genre and the art of writing a 'western'.
“We just don't have the answer to when is the right time to transfuse the patient or how low can you go with that hemoglobin," said Colleen Koch, cardiac surgery anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic.”
“In prose, if not in poetry, there are few worries about the "vanity of translation" identified by Shelley, who wrote that "it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as to seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet".”
“Did he eat tainted meat during training, draw that blood and then transfuse it back during the Tour?”
“How about treating them with pain medications first, transfuse if needed second, then image the bones third, then surgery fourth, etc, with later steps to be skipped when the ability to pay is exceeded.”
Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“How about treating them with pain medications first, transfuse if needed second, then image the bones third, then surgery fourth, etc, with later steps to be skipped when the ability to pay is exceeded.”
Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Gregory Mosher, who directed last year's flawless Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," has done his best to transfuse this moldy theatrical corpse with the blood of plausibility.”
“Another positive sign is an intensive search for new leadership to replace the bullying and the bipolar politics of Labor leader Ehud Barak, and to transfuse and transform the halting and marginal Meretz.”
“Mr. Armstrong has also been accused by Mr. Landis of employing another banned technique in which riders transfuse their blood during long races, also to replenish red blood cells.”
The Wall Street Journal: Prosecutors Step Up Armstrong Probe
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘transfuse’.
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trans-
across or beyond; on or to the other side; through; going beyond
transcendent, transform, transonic, transalpine, transcontinental, transparent, transparency, transportation, transport, transatlantic, transfer, translate and 30 more...
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